Lives of the poets by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)40
editions published
between
1998
and
2014
in
English
and held by
1,913 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Includes material on "the lives and works of over 300 English-language poets of the last 700 years and spanning distant shores
from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean"--Paperback back cover

The novel : a biography by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)16
editions published
in
2014
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
1,721 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally diverse, with contributions
from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa, influenced by great novelists
working in other languages, and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied
landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt quotes from "artist
practitioners," from letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists, and draws on their biographies, to invite us into
the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggest how these dialogues have shaped the development of the
novel in English

The first poets : lives of the ancient Greek poets by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)20
editions published
between
2004
and
2016
in
English
and held by
1,053 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In The First Poets, Schmidt rescues the lives of classical Greek poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the
first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except
the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives
through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the "dirty old
man of poetry"; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others." "Combining the verifiable facts of their lives
and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create
vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture."--Jacket

On poets and others by Octavio Paz(
Book
)9
editions published
between
1986
and
2014
in
English
and held by
828 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Nobel Prize?winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects
his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets
and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky
to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux.
Paz writes,?I believe that a writer's attitude to language should be that of a

New poetries V(
)5
editions published
in
2011
in
English
and held by
517 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This anthology of the work of English-language poets from Britain and abroad displays the variety and vigour of new and neglected
talent

The great modern poets(
Book
)14
editions published
between
2006
and
2014
in
English
and held by
478 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Hear the best poets of the 20th century read their work"--CD

Reading modern poetry by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)9
editions published
in
1989
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
305 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Lyrical ballads : with a few other poems by William Wordsworth(
Book
)9
editions published
between
1999
and
2006
in
English
and held by
292 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during
their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern
readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern
Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes

Green island by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)4
editions published
between
1982
and
1985
in
English
and held by
277 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Green Island is the story of an intense friendship between two boys; one a well-to-do American, the other, a peon gardener
on his father's Mexican estate

The Harvill book of twentieth-century poetry in English by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)17
editions published
between
1999
and
2012
in
English
and held by
255 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Michael Schmidt's anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets. What links their diverse voices is a common language:
each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new." "The poems in this book also slip free of
their moorings in the history of the century and create new spaces. They are chosen because they are exceptional, profound
and unique in what they do to langauge, regardless of their subject matter or the orientation of the poet. In the twentieth
century, poems do things they have never done before."--Jacket

My brother Gloucester : new poems by Michael Schmidt(
Book
)11
editions published
in
1976
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
223 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Poems of the Aztec peoples(
Book
)3
editions published
in
1983
in
English
and held by
218 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This collection brings together in English translation some of the most outstanding pre-Columbian Nahuatl texts. Included
are poems from the Texcoco poetry festivals, Aztec texts about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and selections from Sahagún's
ethnographic record of sacred songs to the gods. An appendix traces the poetic tradition into the present with selections
from contemporary Otomi, Lacondon, and Huichol material. The collection takes the reader beyond the image of Tenochititlan
as a monolithic Aztec society to give a sense of the richness and diversity of cultures in sixteenth-century Mexico. In these
poems we discover many voices in Aztlán, all of them full of wonder at the mysteries of the world--the heart, the rain sweeping
down from the mountains to nourish the corn, the sun, and the conflict between humans and nature.--Cover

Flower and song : poems of the Aztec peoples by Edward Kissam(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1977
and
2009
in
English
and held by
199 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Collects extant poetry from the Aztec civilization, including songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual, and war, and epic poems
of myth and legend

New collected poems by Elizabeth Jennings(
Book
)4
editions published
in
2002
in
English
and held by
198 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide